Word: succubus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jackson's Hedda is nasty and coarse, a kind of anemic succubus. She is choking on her own rage, not fighting against her desperation. There is no sympathy in her. It is impossible to tell why men are so drawn to her. Hedda must be a woman of sensuous deceits. Jackson's is an arch, nearly campy portrayal, full of snarling asides of self-pity. The performance might work in The Little Foxes; here, it looks like parody...
Fans of Myra Breckinridge-that beautiful, transsexual, all-American succubus-will recall that she was last seen in a hospital bed after having the silicon knocked out of her by a hit-and-run driver. To save her life, Dr. Mengers rebuilt and re-endowed her as Myron Breckinridge: the man, in fact, who Myra had originally been before a sex-change operation transformed him into a her. Though the doctor fashioned a generous "rehnquist" for the new Myron, he did not provide him with a set of "powells...
...them endlessly. Ford was fond of women and attractive to them, in part because he shared with his hero Tietjens the view that you seduce "a young woman in order to be able to finish your talks with her." Yet one feels he fully deserved Violet Hunt, the intellectual succubus for whom he broke up his first marriage in 1909 and who became the model for one of fiction's most ferocious females, Tietjens' wife Sylvia. Violet's real-life amours included pursuit by-or of -both H.G. Wells and Henry James, as well as six pages...